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Alcohol Detox New York City

St. Judes Can Help You Narrow Down Your NYC Alcohol Detox Options

New York City's Alcohol Detox Options

Excessive alcohol use can damage relationships, ruin careers, be devastating financially and can lead to numerous health complications, but you do not have to suffer needlessly. If you are one of the 400,000 people in New York City who struggles with excessive alcohol use and are in need of alcohol detox in NYC, there is help available for you.

There are hundreds of alcohol detoxification centers in New York City that can offer assistance to take back control of your life. Some alcohol detox centers are funded by state and federal agencies and others are private centers that can help you whether you have insurance or not.

Detox is the removal of chemical toxins that have accumulated in your system from alcohol use. There are several options for alcohol detox in New York City: outpatient, inpatient, non medical and medical programs. A detoxification program is critical in helping to ease the withdrawal symptoms for individuals experiencing detox. In addition to nausea and vomiting, sweating, irritability and irregular heartbeat, sometimes individuals experience the DTs or delirium tremens. If not treated correctly, the DTs can cause convulsions and even result in death.

Outpatient detox is available for medical and non medical detox. Acupuncture, meditation therapy and vitamin therapy are all considered non medical detox and can be useful approaches to alcohol detox â€“ however, many in the medical community see these unorthodox detox methods as potentially dangerous. A 12 step program is another method for non medical detox. 12 step programs promote the idea that you have a brain disease and that there is no cure for alcohol use. These types of programs offer the suggestion that only through abstaining from alcohol completely can you attempt to achieve sobriety, but you will relapse because you are diseased. This thought is simply not true. You are not diseased and there are more effective approaches to solving the alcohol and drug problem.

Clinics where you go for medication, like methadone clinics and maintenance centers, are a form of outpatient medical programs. These clinics use drugs as a substitute for heroin use. Methadone is a narcotic and controlled substance and the withdrawal symptoms from methadone are sometimes more unbearable than withdrawal from heroin; and they have been known to last longer as well.

Inpatient medical detox is the best method of detox. IV therapy medical detox utilizes intravenous injection to ensure that just the right amount of medication is given to you to not only address your withdrawal symptoms from alcohol cessation, but also to keep you comfortable at the same time. IV therapy medical detox is issued under the care of physicians, nurses and technicians and your condition and progress is watched 24/7.

After you have successful completed detox, it may be necessary for you to enter a program to help you rebuild your life. St. Jude Retreats is not a 12 step program and we do not substitute drugs for alcohol use. We offer an education based program that can help you self evaluate and make the decisions that can help you create habits and behaviors that will help you have a life that is free from alcohol use permanently.

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